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Enewsletter • January 6, 2005

News from Vegan Outreach

Happy New Year!

We are now back in the office, getting caught up on back
orders. The new booklet, Even
If You Like Meat, is now available for order from our
catalog.
We will work hard to get all orders filled as soon as possible.

Thanks to everyone who attended Matt Ball's talk in Phoenix
on December 29 (at right) -- and apologies to everyone who was turned
away due to lack of space!

Attention: Houston

Jon Camp will be leafleting colleges in the Houston area
Jan. 24 - 28 and would love some help. If you would like to help out,
please email jon@veganoutreach.org.

Adopt a College, Fall 2004

What an amazing semester -- we handed out 83,727
flyers at 140 schools!

Joe Espinosa took first place among the volunteers, distributing 9,194
copies of Why Vegan and Try Vegetarian at 18 schools,
and thousands more in other venues -- while still working his full-time
job! Thanks to the support of Vegan Outreach's members, our newest employee,
Jon Camp, leafleted at 46 different schools, handing out an unbelievable
total of 26,602 copies!

December Newsletter Now Available

Letters Published

As a full-time animal advocate,
I see the notion of "flexitarian"
-- defined as "a person who consumes mainly
vegetarian food, but occasionally eats meat
or fish" (Week in Review, Dec. 26) -- as
a definite boon for animals.

Farmed animals endure unfathomable misery on today's factory farms and
in slaughterhouses. Flexitarians offer a great alternative to those wishing
to reduce this suffering but who see the immediate switch to vegetarianism
or veganism as too strict.

To me, eating vegetarian isn't about being perfect or pure, but about
reducing suffering. Even if we just cut our meat consumption in half,
we would be reducing half of the misery of today's farmed animals.

It's not surprising that a vegetarian restaurant would be a favorite
among both Democrats and Republicans. Taking good care of one's health
is beyond partisanship and, just as important, so is the goal of trying
to reduce animal suffering.

On today's factory farms, egg-laying hens have parts of their beaks seared
off with hot metal blades and live in cages so small that they're unable
to even flap their wings. Male pigs endure castration without the luxury
of a painkiller, and at slaughter, animals are often dismembered while
still fully conscious.

Regardless of one's political creed, we can probably all agree that reducing
suffering is a good thing. With restaurants like the Spiral Diner now
sprouting up across the United States, we can enjoy delicious food while
making the world a kinder place.

-Jon Camp, Vegan Outreach, Highland
Park, NJ

News from All Over

Volunteers Needed to Submit Vegetarian TV Show to Their Local Stations!

VegVideo is a
television show that airs investigations, interviews, lectures and documentaries
about the treatment of farmed animals and the alternative of a vegetarian
diet. VegVideo airs on community television in San Francisco, Chicago,
Seattle and 30 other cities across the country. Volunteers are needed
to submit episodes to their local station. For more information, check
out www.vegvideo.org
and/or e-mail
vegvideo@yahoo.com.

Vegan Outreach is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the suffering of farmed animals by promoting informed, ethical eating.